Penguin Podcast 45 - Topical Specialness
Today's special edition of the Penguin Podcast features Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl's barnstorming debut novel. The first episode is here, but head over to the Short History website from 4 June to download the other 13 episodes every night from 9pm.
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a mesmerizing debut. As
teenager Blue van Meer tells her story we are hurled into a dizzying
world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American
McCulture, the Western Canon, political radicalism and juvenile
crushisms. Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature
class (with hand-drawn Visual Aids), Blue’s wickedly funny yet poignant
tale reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering
times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the
darkest of secrets can set us free.
'It had been almost a year since I’d found
Hannah dead, and I thought I’d managed to erase all traces of that
night within myself. I was wrong.'
Excellent post. Could not have said it any better myself. Hat's off to a post well said.
Posted by: podcast directory | 28/04/2008 at 08:07 PM